An Old Farts Outdoor Thread

[fishnbrah]

I’m going spearfishing in a lake tomorrow. No wetsuit, Gonna be cold af

[paulinkansas]

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Whoa! That should go into The Turtle Emporium Museum of America. Or, this memory of historical value will be lost forever.

I hope you do the right thing, Paulito.

[Mark1T]

^^ Very cool. Great story.

[paulinkansas]

^^ Very cool. Great story.

I'll add you to my sig list. Between a possum and a raccoon.

[OldFartTom]

I’m going spearfishing in a lake tomorrow. No wetsuit, Gonna be cold af

I spent last weekend in water in 40-50 F (depending on depth) and it was too cold for wetsuits (if you spend much time in it) so no wetsuit? You must be Wim Hoff? That said.. there were a lot of swimmers there as well, and some of them were dressed for a summer beach - except for wetsuits gloves.

Waiting to see if you post again today or if you're MiA in a freezing lake? Fingers crossed for you...

[Mark1T]

I'll add you to my sig list. Between a possum and a raccoon.

I could not be more honored.

[paulinkansas]

Posted this deer before, but not this pic. I like the lean and angle here.

Upgrading you from an opossum to a ferret.

[steffo99]

Finally got one of these little guys to stalk/follow for a bit... Gave off a cute little warning sound I believe.

[steffo99]

[OldFartTom]

That's a winning shot!

[steffo99]

That's a winning shot!

Thank you, Tom. I like it as well. Just so glad I caught one of these guys. Didn't see him at first, but heard some noise in the leaves and hoped it wasn't just another bird.

[paulinkansas]

Finally got one of these little guys to stalk/follow for a bit...

My wife was maybe 5-6 years old and her dad came home with a couple cleaned squirrels ready to be cooked for dinner that he shot. She started crying.


She thought they were puppies.

[mtpockets]

All those shots are amazing Steffo. I take a lot of Squirrel shots, they are fun!

The one above must have been taken on 420, that's a stoned squirrel if I ever saw one..


Keep them coming.

[paulinkansas]

I had some nuisance squirrels hanging out in a big pecan tree at a rental house. Took my 10 pump pellet gun with a scope there. Nailed the first squirrel and it fell out of the tree. It tried to climb back up. Out of nowhere this stray cat charges the squirrel like a lion charges a gazelle and catches it. It carried it across the yard, across an alley, and into a crawlspace of a house.

Now i have nuisance pigeons at that house. I drop one and it's a footrace between me and the stray cats to get the pigeon. I feed them to a fox.

[steffo99]

My wife was maybe 5-6 years old and her dad came home with a couple cleaned squirrels ready to be cooked for dinner that he shot. She started crying.


She thought they were puppies.

Jesus, sounds cruel...but still makes me wonder what it would taste like.

Thanks again pockets, just glad whenever get something worthy of sharing here.


Have a good evening all...bed time here soon.

Edit: You guys need to stop killing these cute animals! Lol.

[paulinkansas]

but still makes me wonder what it would taste like.

Pretty similar to a rabbit, but with a stronger taste. There are 3 baby rabbits about the size of a grapefruit that come out every morning from under my deck and eat grass/clover.

Their name's are Peter, Paul and Mary.

[steffo99]

Pretty similar to a rabbit, but with a stronger taste. There are 3 baby rabbits about the size of a grapefruit that come out every morning from under my deck and eat grass/clover.

Their name's are Peter, Paul and Mary.

Don't eat them! Let them live fruitful rabbit lives. I know Mark would blow them away with a shotgun, but that's something we can't control.

[Mark1T]

steffonacias, great shots. What is the squirrel? We have gray and Red Fox here. Except up North where the Mountain Man roams, those squirrells better resemble the mongrels you have over there in The Netherlandic region of the Earth.

My wife was maybe 5-6 years old and her dad came home with a couple cleaned squirrels ready to be cooked for dinner that he shot. She started crying.

She thought they were puppies.

Paulalto, I hope you skinned them before you cooked them. Might help!

I had some nuisance squirrels hanging out in a big pecan tree at a rental house. Took my 10 pump pellet gun with a scope there. Nailed the first squirrel and it fell out of the tree. It tried to climb back up. Out of nowhere this stray cat charges the squirrel like a lion charges a gazelle and catches it. It carried it across the yard, across an alley, and into a crawlspace of a house.

Now i have nuisance pigeons at that house. I drop one and it's a footrace between me and the stray cats to get the pigeon. I feed them to a fox.

And I thought the worst problem he have in America is a staggering amount of men wanting to dress like a woman.

I was wrong apparently.

But, I digress!

[steffo99]

steffonacias, great shots. What is the squirrel? We have gray and Red Fox here. Except up North where the Mountain Man roams, those squirrells better resemble the mongrels you have over there in The Netherlandic region of the Earth.

Thanks, Mark.. The type we have are cute squirells, and you cannot trap or blow them away!

[steffo99]

Could be quantum entangled squirrels though, moving too fast to be real so probably exist in several places at once.

[paulinkansas]

Don't eat them! Let them live fruitful rabbit lives.

A person can google the meaning of lots of rabbits on your property. It means you are prosperous.

The rabbits are so tame that they take baby carrots out of our hands while we sit on the edge of the deck.

[Mark1T]

Could be quantum entangled squirrels though, moving too fast to be real so probably exist in several places at once.

That's what I was suspecting. BTW, congratulations on your ferret promotion. There is no greater accomplishment.

[fishnbrah]

I spent last weekend in water in 40-50 F (depending on depth) and it was too cold for wetsuits (if you spend much time in it) so no wetsuit? You must be Wim Hoff? That said.. there were a lot of swimmers there as well, and some of them were dressed for a summer beach - except for wetsuits gloves.

Waiting to see if you post again today or if you're MiA in a freezing lake? Fingers crossed for you...

Water temp was 65 on the surface. I didn’t shoot any fish

[mtpockets]

Organized a litter cleanup for our area and proud to say that we didn't find a lot but what we did find was taken out of the area and disposed with properly. It was a bigger than expected turn out and we all had a blast, another productive fun Earth Day in the books. Every day should be earth day, we need to keep it prestine for our future generations to enjoy.




The weather here has been about the normal temps for this time of year, cool dipping well below freezing at night, it seems weird for the ice to be off so soon. The smelts aren't running in my area yet but they have been running in areas further south. I checked yesterday and most of the creeks had water temps between 38-40 degrees. Looking for that sweet spot between 42-44 degrees When the peeper frogs start peeping you know they are close and start peeping a bit before the smelts start to run and I heard some in my travels yesterday so the smelts will run the creeks shortly and I will get a sh!tload to use as bait and of course a few feeds.

Fishing has been great, trout are now cruising the shorelines making bank fishing a hoot.
Well that's all I got for now and it's almost time for me to make tracks. Those trout aren't going to catch themselves.

You Fukkers have a great day and keep a grin on!

[steffo99]

Small bird that hung around for a bit yesterday.
White wagtail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_wagtail

[steffo99]

Fieldfare/Snowbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldfare

[paulinkansas]

Bumping you up to an owl.

[Mark1T]

MT, excellent on the cleanup. Keep on fishing

steffonoli, awesome birdie shots.

Guess what kind of bird this is. I took the pic here:

[mtpockets]

The crazy weather continues... 61 degrees yesterday afternoon... then Rain moved in, thunder snow and lightning. The temps dropped to 14 degrees overnight and we had a few inches of snow and a flash freeze. It's a skating rink out there right now. Gonna let thinks melt a bit before I head out, getting too old to be doing the bambi thing





Great day yesterday. I took the ATV into a back lake to do some speckled trout (brook trout) fishing. The portion of the lake that I was fishing was a small peninsula that juts out into the lake about 100 yards long and I was fishing the very end of it. It isn’t very wide, maybe 30 feet at the widest and quite well treed, but over the years I have made a trail wide enough to get the ATV to the end of it. I camp there on occasion both in the winter and summer.

At lunch time I went back up the trail to get a bit of wood to cook up lunch, I heard some sandhill cranes coming so I stayed still, they got close and were just above the tree tops when they passed over me. 8 of them and they landed at the end of the peninsula about 50 feet from me and about 15 feet from the atv.

I have never gotten so close to them before and all my cameras were on the atv. I watched them for about 10 minutes enjoying them before I decided to make a move and see if I could get to the camera. I belly crawled to the atv only moving when they were calling. It was slow going and I got to within 10 feet of the ATV and they all started calling. (I think they were laughing at me) Then they took off. It was a great experience they are very interesting. Watching them drop in was incredible.




Mark I have no idea what that bird is, never saw anything like it. Pretty cool, look like it's a few pounds though..


Here's one for all you mushroom lovers on this fine Hump Day!






You fukkers have an awesome day and keep smilin!

[steffo99]

Guess what kind of bird this is. I took the pic here:

Did a cheat search on the image so think I know, but will shut up.